Foldable and collapsible bucket.



W. H. ROSS. FOLDABLE AND COLLAPSIBLE BUCKET. APPLICATION FILED MAY 5, 1915.

Patented Sept. 7, 1915.

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COLUMBIA PLANoaRAPH Co.. WASHINGTON. D. c.

mean sire FOLDABLE AND GOLLAPSIBLEBUGKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application file llliay 5, 1915: Seria1No.-26,178:

To all whom it may concern Be ityknownthat l; .VVILLIAM H. Ross, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of lvlassachusetts, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Foldable and Collapsible Buckets, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

The objectof this invention is to provide a collapsible bucket or pail of general utility but especially available and convenient to be carried in flat collapsed condition in an automobile, or a boat, and to be used as coca sion requires, for instance as a receptacle for gasolene from which it may be poured into the fuel supply tank of the motor vehicle, or as a receptacle for water from which the same may be poured into the radiator or water cooler appurtenant to the engine of the vehicle.

The improved bucket or receptacle is de scribed in conjunction with the accompany ing drawings and is set forth in the claims.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is aside view of the bucket. big. 2 is a vertical sectiona view on line 2*2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the receptacle, shown as more or less distended or bulged, as it would appear when more or less nearly full of liquid. Fi g. i is a view showing the form of a blank or sheet from which the entire receptacle, with the exception of its handle, is produced.

In the drawings, the bucket is shown as consisting of a pouch A, open at its top a, and having near one vertical folding edge 7) thereof an upward extension to form a pouring spout d; and the collapsible pouch is provided at an intermediate portion of its top with a strap handle B. Portions g of the extension (Z occupying positions at opposite sides of the pouch at and inwardly from the vertical folding edge (Z, are unat tached to form the mouth of the spout, while other portions of the said extension Z inwardly relatively to said mouth portion are secured together as indicated at 7L, eonducing to the formation or production of the pouring spout.

In the manufacture of the foldable or collapsible buckets or receptacles, I provide a blank as shown in Fig. a, of impervious fabric, such as canvas, duck or the like, rendered waterproof; and which sheet or blank has at its upper edge intermediately of the length thereof the upward extension 0F, ,the edge s of which. at its opposite outer portion h k areiinclined downwardly and outwardly. The blank is folded on the cen. tral vertical 5 line 6 thereof and 1 of i the extensiond* to bringiits' outer 'vertical edges,-

its bottom edges and the inclined i outer p'ortions of said 'extensioninto conjunction, and the said outeredges, the bottom edges, and the said adjoined inclined portions ;L2 h of the extension are united by lines of stitch ingrespeotively indicated by 2', 7', and is in Fig. 1. F or the purpose of providing prop erly closed seams in the device along the line where the adj oined edge portions are united by stitching, the blank or sheet is made with narrow extension flaps m, and 0, which are lapped around on the faces of the portions of the sheet which in the folding are brought facewise adjacent the edge portions with which the said narrow flaps are integral. The lap seams 0 and m at the bottom and vertical edge of the receptacle, as manifest, increase the water tight character thereof. lhe strap handle B composed of a narrow strip of canvas, duck or other flexible fabric or material, has the end portions thereof sewed by the stitching t to the opposite sides of the pouch at, or about at the middle of the open top thereof.

The bucket made of the material and formed substantially as described is foldable and collapsible to as compact a form as an envelop of corresponding size would have.

The device is susceptible of quick and easy manufacture, at low cost and with very little waste of material; and its advantages of compactness over a cumbersome rigid pail or receptacle, and its availability for use under many conditions and circumstances are manifest.

I claim Patented Sept. '7 1915.

1. A bucket consisting of a pouch of impervious fabric, open at its top, adapted to be collapsed to flat form, having at its top,

near one folding edge an upward extension comprising portions of the fabric occupying positions at opposite sides of the pouch, porsaid extension into conjunction, the said outer edges, thebottom edge portions, and

I the adjoined edge portions of the extension removed from its central Vertical folding line being secured together by stitching, and.

the so made receptacle havinga strap handle at its top. v v

3. A collapsible bucket formed-of a generally rectangular sheet or blank of impervious fabric, having,:intern1ediately of its upper edge, an upward extension, the edges of which at its opposite outer portions are in- WILLIAM H. ROSS. Witnesses J. M. HENDERSON,

ARTH R H. MAYHUE.

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